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Senate Bill 1871 |
Senate Author: Zaffirini et al. |
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Effective: 6-15-07 |
House Sponsor: Hochberg |
Senate Bill 1871 amends the Education Code to require a district that is required to offer bilingual education or special language programs to include certain demographic information on students enrolled in those programs in its Public Education Information Management System (PEIMS) report, including the number and percentage of students enrolled in each instructional model of those programs offered by the district and the number and percentage of students of limited English proficiency (LEP) who do not receive specialized instruction. For reporting purposes, the bill establishes several classifications for bilingual education programs and special language programs based on specific criteria, and it requires a program to be classified in the PEIMS report as "no bilingual education or special language services provided" if the district has received a waiver and is not required to offer a program or other conditions apply.
The bill amends provisions relating to the school readiness certification system developed by the State Center for Early Childhood Development and used to certify the effectiveness of prekindergarten programs and certain federal or government-subsidized child-care programs to allow districts using the system and the Texas Education Agency to compile and report student raw score results on the state's reading diagnosis test. The bill also requires performance on certain indicators in the Academic Excellence Indicator System to be based on longitudinal student data disaggregated by the bilingual education or special language program, if any, in which LEP students are or former LEP students were enrolled.